PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — Twenty-five years after a meteorite tore through the trunk of a teenager’s Chevy Malibu Classic in this northern Westchester County city, the astonishingly rare event continues to anoint the car with stardust.

The 1980 Chevy will head to Paris over the next few weeks to be part of an exhibition on meteorites at France's national natural history museum — Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle — the car's current owner said.

On Oct. 9, 1992, the 26.5-pound space rock — captured by 16 cameras in several eastern states as it alighted across that Friday night sky — crashed through the back of the car owned at the time by 18-year-old Michelle Knapp, who had parked the Chevy in her driveway at 242 Wells St. She had bought the car for about $400.

“It’s going to be celebrating its 25th anniversary by being sent on an ocean cruise,” said Darryl Pitt, who now owns the car as well as portions of the meteorite.

Pitt, who is founder and curator of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites, said the Peekskill meteorite car will travel by container ship for about two weeks and is expected to be exhibited for about four months in Paris. He said the exhibition is called Météorites: Entre Ciel et Terre — (Meteorites, Between Heaven and Earth).

Like the Malibu, the space rock — an H6 chondrite — would not be a Maserati among meteorites. But brought together in a cosmic marriage of mayhem, the duo made history.

"Apart from the Earth itself, the Peekskill meteorite car remains the most famous object to be struck by a meteorite," Pitt said.

Car and space rock have enjoyed their share of fame since.

The Malibu was exhibited for six months in 1993 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

In 2012, the 20th anniversary of the day meteorite and Malibu met, the car's original title and a damaged tail-light bulb sold for $5,312 at auction in Manhattan. A piece of meteorite also sold at the auction, for $16,250. A larger, 9-ounce piece of meteorite that had some of the car's paint on it did not fetch the minimum bid and was withdrawn, The Journal News reported. It had an estimated value of $47,500 to $55,000.

This year, there are no known auction plans.

In Peekskill, there are no official city plans for commemorating the 25th anniversary, according to Mayor Frank Catalina. But, on Saturday, Dallas Abbott, a scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Rockland is scheduled to give a talk at the observatory’s open house.

Soon after the space rock committed a fender blaster, it was William Menke, an expert from Lamont-Doherty, along with another scientist there, who confirmed that it was a meteorite.

The Journal News has, over the years, told the story. At about 8 p.m. on a rainy evening, Michelle Knapp was watching TV in the house on Wells Street when she heard a crash. Outside, she found a smoking football-size rock that had damaged the right side of the car's trunk.

The meteorite was found in a 6-inch crater in the driveway along with metal and other debris from its trajectory through the car.

Initially, the meteorite was in the city police station's evidence room and then returned to the Knapps.

Meteorite enthusiasts and scientists from around the country converged on Peekskill.

Marie Knapp, Michelle's mother, told The Journal News in 1993 that the family received many phone calls.

The meteorite and the car were eventually sold to the highest bidder.

Pitt said the meteorite was divided and went initially to three investors: A Chicago radiologist, a fossil dealer and someone who cuts and polishes meteorites. Pitt said he bought portions of the meteorite from two of the investors.

Pitt eventually acquired the Malibu from Allan Langheinrich, owner of Lang's Fossils and of R.A. Langheinrich Meteorites.

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